Montana on pace to surpass 1 million residents by 2012 (transplants, 2011)

[censusdata]

Montana has 967,440 resident as of the last census estimate, which was for July 2008. That is an average gain of 8,125 residents per year since 2000, with a pace that will break the 1 million resident mark by 2012 - or 2011 if growth accelerates.

[anonymoose]

Originally Posted by censusdata

Montana has 967,440 resident as of the last census estimate, which was for July 2008. That is an average gain of 8,125 residents per year since 2000, with a pace that will break the 1 million resident mark by 2012 - or 2011 if growth accelerates.

A few months ago I heard that we had just passed the one million mark--no doubt for the first time in history.

[rickers]

That census data doesn't take in the fact that we have finally been hit by the current recession and despite some signs of recovery I doubt if the projected population gain will be sustained. My part of the state is still losing population.

[Stephan_K]

Hell, the way people are leaving and have left the Flathead alone, and when you take into account the rest of the state losing the people it has due to this recession, the population number they have for MT last year is probably nowhere near correct today. Growth... my best guess today is its a negative number and probably will be for the next year or two.

[Walter Greenspan]

Census Bureau Fact Sheet for Montana .

[rickers]

There seems to be an abundance of new homes and eateries for new residents in the Flathead Valley, I just don't know where all these people will work. Taco John's ? Must be people with outside money moving in. I'm sure glad to live in a town that isn't being over-run with "outside money" people.

[geonerd]

that'll be 999,998 if my wife and I are lucky.

[Joe Doer]

If the state of California keeps falling into a financial abyss, watch for a flood of people heading this way from California. Many can conduct their business from Montana not needing to live with higher taxes, gangs, crowded schools, traffic, etc.

[Timberwolf232]

We have enough people coming from California already..

The real question should be how do we STOP them? They seem to bring along all the crap they say they are trying to leave behind most of the time.

[rickers]

Originally Posted by Timberwolf232

We have enough people coming from California already..
The real question should be how do we STOP them? They seem to bring along all the crap they say they are trying to leave behind most of the time.

Stop them ? Ha ! Ever try spitting into the wind ? I moved here from California 12 years ago and there is and was not anything or anyone that would or could have stopped me from moving here. I came with $2,000. No credit cards, no home or job lined up and got a job just as we ran out of money. I worked my butt off and now I have three rentals and am happily retired. I doubt if the majority of new transplants are from California, It doesn't seem to matter where transplants are really from, everyone here seems to just label them all Californians.